From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-12-11T13:25:22+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7027] Re: Ruby as extension lang for Java app.

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:7025] Re: Ruby as extension lang for Java app."
    on 00/12/11, Joey Gibson <joey@joeygibson.com> writes:

|# Awhile ago I did a little work on the java.c file in that module to get
|# it to compile with ruby 1.6 (or was it 1.4?).  Nothing fancy, but I was
|# able to get it to create a few java objects from ruby.  There still
|# seems to be problems with it.  I had trouble with some of the object
|# types and polymorphism.  Unfortunately I didn't have time to pursue
|# anything further. 
|
|	This would be sooo sweet to have. The system that our company uses  
|(and that I designed) is written in Java, so I do a TON of work in 
|JPython because I can get to all of our Java objects. I am now completly 
|sold on Ruby, and would LOVE to be able to do the same thing.

fetch two files from ftp.netlab.co.jp.

  /pub/lang/ruby/contrib/java-module-0_5.tar.gz

and replace java.c in it by 1.6 replacement

  /pub/lang/ruby/contrib/java.c.gz

It is far from complete, but definitely a baseline.  The original
author, MAEDA Shugo, stopped its development.  Anyone volumteer to
maintain it?

Anyway, thanks to Wes Nakamura, who created new java.c.

							matz.